Community suffers. More than 600,000 get released from prison, another 11 million cycle through local jails. More than one quarter of all americans have had some kind of encounter with the criminal Justice System. Mostly for minor, nonviolent offen offenses. A report finds that nearly threequarters of all released prisoners will be rearrested within five years. Six in ten will be reconvicted. There are proven ways to reduce this. According to research, number one, education and vocational programs. Based on scientific evidence, meaningful work is an important contributor to keeping past offenders out of jail. One program thats helping give people a Second Chance is right here in our area called the community kitchen. You have to practice. It took me three years. Reporter this is not your average cooking class. The men and women at phi philabundance are not like other traditional students. A few are doing jail time. Richard cramer served five years for conspiracy to grow marijuana. Towa
Talk to youu about Financial Inclusion and moving Financial Education forward. Fetches a much. [applause] thank you so much. [applause] thank you again, mr. Secretary. This is been terrific. It is my pleasure to move us forward and to introduce Roger Ferguson junior. His illustrious career and a competence accomplishments speak for himself. Federal reserve system employee. He served on the president s economic recovery Advisory Board and council on jobs and repetitiveness. Competitiveness. Ceo of piab. Allows them to have unique authority on issues of wealth building and had to provide Financial Services. His contribution to our country and the private sector have been recognized many times. Hes recognized more time. [applause] one more time. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction and good morning, everyone. The sun is to be here. I commend the secretary and the department for hosting this forum. And for paying tribute to friedmans bank. All of you know that friedmans bank was
Ability to learn and be motivated to learn. And other competing issues. To what communities that majorhave seen sectors need to come together and focus on key issues and do that over a sustained time and make sure equity is an adequate part of the discussion. If you bring publicprivate partnerships, basing to be effective and impactful. When you look at the sectors, whether corporate or private, government sector engages well with that. And institutions as well. They sustain themselves for a long time. Intersectionthis between these various sectors can really create opportunity for people in those communities. We have seen that happen. Now tiedam and atlanta to the new falcons stadiums. It is bringing together a lot of the sectors together. Trying to make a transformational impact. We can invest in over 1 billion in building a new stadium tickets are 22 a lot more to help the community adjacent to that. And we can do a lot more to help the community adjacent to that. Let me drill down
Approved beneficiaries of their family members were not able to actually take advantage of it and come to the United States because of the numerical limits on family based immigration every year. Continued to deteriorate. As we have had requests from other stake holders to take another look at that, my leadership would agree to take another look at the program. They have agreed to consider it. You have a request and im sure you should consider it. That is a problematic to do business. Were increasing number of refugees for syria and i think that is the appropriate way to openly and directly deal with this. The parole system was never designed to be used in this fashion as i understand the law. With regard to resettlement, i guess, mr. Chair, does that follow within your area . Yes, it does. And general, i believe some sort of consultation with communities about a desire to resettle a number of people in their community. What is your policy on that, and can you assure us any community t
It was a dramatic ended to a hostage situation in sydney, australia. Australian Police Confirmed that three are dead and 4 injured after the 16hour siege in downtown sydney. The victims included 2 hostages, 38yearold man in a 38yearold woman. And the gun man, a 50yearold man. In a News Conference that 17 hostages total had been accounted for. We found out that a Police Officer suffered a nonlifethreatening loan to the face wounded to the face that we dont have information on his injury at this point. How did the situation unfold . The crisis came to an end after heavily armed police lint chocolate cafe good gunfire rang out for about 30 seconds after several hostages escaped with their hands up. Not seenn who was leaving the building, the suspected gunman, identified as s. N haron moni he is a selfprofessed muslim cleric with a long criminal record. He was connected to the murder of his wife and charged with more than 50 counts of sexual assault. Prior to the hostage situation, monis w